The week that was: how one individual can change the world | View

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21/12/2018

Welcome to our weekly View round-up where we take a look at the hot topics that have had you talking this week. With powerful testimonies of personal suffering and endurance to Donald Trump’s political woes, we aim to give you a flavour of the opinions that have driven debate across Europe and beyond over the last seven days.

Social media is dominated by personalities called influencers. Acting as a muse to millions of people, they help to inspire our tastes and influence our decisions. Of course, the power of the individual to do this through the written word is incalculable, as we see each week in the op-eds on View.

Of course, in some movements, individual voices are often needed to help corral public opinion in favour of its objectives. Long before the #MeToo movement, the first European queens to rule in their own right were harried by the men of their time. With filming beginning only a month before #MeToo really broke out into the news agenda, the latest biopic about the life of Mary, Queen of Scots – her loves, her loss, her vulnerability and her strength - has become an ode to every woman kept from greatness by men and flies the flag for women everywhere, writes Ani Bundel.